EP1478277B1 - M-mode-verfahren zur verfolgung von gewebebewegungen in bilddarstellungen - Google Patents
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- the application that stimulated the development of the present method derives from capability of tracking the moving vascular wall (e.g. myocardium) from cardiovascular images in such a way to extract from the image the properties (velocity, brightness, etc.) evaluated in correspondence of the tissue.
- the moving vascular wall e.g. myocardium
- One driving example is the analysis of the time-course of blood flow in the capillary bed of the myocardium, based on the echo-contrast imaging.
- the health of the myocardium can be established, among other ways, from the ability of the blood to reach all muscular cells; if a myocardial region is not perfused then derives mechanical failure (e.g. during angina or myocardial infarction). It is therefore important to develop techniques able to evaluate the perfusion properties of the different tissue regions.
- the quantification of myocardial perfusion is made by introducing a contrast agent in vein, it moves with the blood and quantification of its presence in the myocardial tissue is equivalent to quantification of myocardial perfusion (Becher and Burns 2000).
- the analysis is made utilizing the ability of ultrasound machine to detect the echo enhancement deriving from the contrast medium that perfuses the myocardium. Recent examples of quantitative analysis of segmental perfusion are reported in literature (Mor-Avi et al. 1993; Wei et al. 1998; Masugata et al. 2001).
- the quantification of wall-related properties is performed simply by analyzing the properties within a ROI, (sometimes just a few pixels within the image) selected well inside the myocardial tissue. It is then important to verify that the selected ROI remains inside the tissue in all the images of the sequence otherwise information that do not pertain to the tissue are included and the analysis is corrupted.
- the sequence should be reviewed frame by frame: when the ROI falls outside the tissue it must be moved manually on the wall. It is evident how such an approach is inherently extremely time-consuming (in most case for each ROI we must review more than 100 frames and a compete evaluation requires to analyze up to 20 different ROI). Sometimes this procedure can performed automatically with methods that depend from the software available.
- Document US-A-5 800 356 discloses a method for continuously tracking in time a wall of a two-dimensional image by analysing the brightness of the image, representing the brightness distribution along a segment across the wall, and defining the wall at each instant along said segment and defining the wall edges as two points on said segment.
- the method of the invention is the method defined in claim 1.
- the matter of defining the wall becomes substantially facilitated.
- the wall should now be sought, at each instant, simply along a single line, where its center is defined by one single point and the wall edge is defined by two points as shown in figure 3 (below).
- the center of the wall can be defined with statistical methods by the center of the distribution of the brightness or darkness (or another desired quantity in different applications).
- the wall thickness can be sought by standard one-dimensional edge finding methods or, statistically, by the dispersion of the wall related property.
- This method for tissue tracking is easily translated into an automatic procedure to be included into a software application for analysis of tissue-related properties:
- This method can be inserted into software applications for different specific purposes to improve the accuracy of analysis concerning tissue related properties.
- the routine for wall tracking has been included into two different sofware applications for myocardial perfusion and for tissue strain analysis.
- Different versions of these software, with different language implementations, have been prepared to run on personal computers where digital images, read from echographs, are available.
- the software has been extensively tested in a series of applications about Tissue Doppler analysis and cardiac echo-contrast experiments with clinical cases to verify its applicability. The results confirm the physical consistency and accuracy of the method.
- the procedure resulting from the serial combination of the passages outlined above is a method that allows to identify the wall, or another inhomogeneous region, on the basis of the normal data measured from echographs and commonly represented as image. Implementation of this technique must be based on a numerical analysis (software application); therefore it should be supported in digital processing by an electronic instrument.
- the procedure outlined above can be implemented with most programming languages, and the routine included inside a complete software application for the analysis of tissue related properties.
- the software can be an internal one running on echographic machines or can be executed on an external computer equipped to read the echographic data.
- the direct inclusion into echographs is more appropriate in the case of an application for rapid analyses that can be performed during the normal echograph use.
- the inclusion into an external device is more appropriate in the case of software dedicated to more accurate analysis that are commonly performed offline. In both cases the equipment becomes a system with the capability of automatic wall recognition and is able to evaluate the wall-related properties thus minimizing the risk of taking data that do not compete to the tissue.
- the implementation of the new approach improves the quality of the information that can be obtained from the electronic equipment, thus giving an additional potential feature that is potentially relevant for several diagnostic applications.
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- Verfahren, welches die folgenden Schritte aufweist:- kontinuierliches zeitliches Verfolgen einer Wand, die in einer zwei- oder dreidimensionalen Bilddarstellung enthalten ist, durch das Erkennen der Wand,- Berücksichtigen mehrerer Segmente, welche die Wand entlang deren gesamter Dicke kreuzen, wobei die Segmente ausreichend lang sind, um in allen Zeitpunkten außerhalb der Wand zu beginnen und zu enden,- Darstellen der Verteilung der Helligkeit der Bilddarstellung entlang jedes der Segmente für alle Zeitpunkte auf einmal in einer zweidimensionalen Darstellung, bei der eine Achse dem Abstand entlang des Segments und die andere Achse der Zeit entspricht,- Bestimmen der Wand zu jedem Zeitpunkt entlang des Segments, wobei die Mitte der Wand als ein einzelner Punkt auf dem Segment definiert ist und die Wandränder als zwei Punkte auf dem Segment definiert sind.
- Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, bei dem die Mitte der Wand mit einem statistischen Verfahren durch den Mittelpunkt der Helligkeitsverteilung bestimmt wird.
- Verfahren nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, bei dem die Dicke der Wand durch ein eindimensionales Randfindungs-Verfahren oder durch die Helligkeitsstreuung der Wand ermittelt wird.
- Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem die Wandmitte und deren Dicke mittels Funktionen zur Ermittlung des Schwerpunktes und der Standardabweichung bestimmt werden, während die zeitliche Entwicklung des Eigenschaftswertes über die Wanddicke integriert wird.
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